Middle East studies in the News

Corruption of Middle East Studies Second to None

by Candace de Russy
Phi Beta Cons
December 9, 2008

http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmY4MjFiNzkxYjZjZjRmOGIyNDlhY2ZmODFjYmY3MjY=

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6448

Within this field of study, as surveyed by Michael I. Krauss of George Mason University School of Law:

exists a bevy of departments and professors competing for the title of most politicized and most funded by occult sources. But one university ["Columbia Unbecoming"] stands out for its persistent efforts to undermine a once-proud discipline by hiring academics of questionable accomplishments and forcing on its students a worldview more typically found in that region's worst dictatorships.

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